Puya hamata L.B.Sm.

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (1): 1-658. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Puya hamata L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Hitchcock 20915 (holotype, US), 12 miles west of Tulcán, Carchi, Ecuador, 10 Aug 1923.

  • Description

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    Description - Flowering plant 2.5-4 m high, solitary. Leaves 7-15 dm long; sheaths ample, serrulate toward apex; blades 2-3 cm wide, flat, glabrous above, beneath minutely pale-lepidote between the nerves, laxly serrate with hooked teeth 11-15 mm long. Scape erect, very stout. Inflorescence cylindric, very densely bipinnate, densely white-lanate; primary bracts acuminate from an ovate base, exceeding the axillary branches at anthesis, entire; racemes subglabrous, subsessile. Floral bracts elliptic, acute, entire, about equaling the sepals, chartaceous when dry; pedicels stout, about 1 cm long. Sepals broadly elliptic, to 23 mm long, ecarinate, coriaceous; petals obtuse, 4 cm long, dark blue, naked.

  • Common Names

    Achupalla, achupalla-cimarona

  • Distribution

    Páramo, 3150-4100 m alt, southwestern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, and northwestern Peru.

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